Way Too Many Props GB April 18, 2011 - Extended to July 28, 2012

Thanks B17. Ye, those masks are nice. Mine came with a Big Ed set. I wouldn't buy them on there own for simple fighter type canopies, but for the multi panelled ones i deffinatly would.

Len - stay safe and dry, hopefully Irene won't cause too much damage.  Stay safe

Bish - The Fort is looking good.  Got to love those eduard masks, sure helps with the frames, especially in 72 scale!

Finishing up a 350 CVN65 Enterprise for a friend and then its full speed ahead on the A-20 (just have to do the flight deck aircraft, but they're so small and a lot of them).  She is ready for paint just as soon as i stuff the gear wells and engines with paper.  Oh and btw the rear turret barrels are still attached.

TREYZX10R

Hunker down Len looks like a direct hit,at least it lost some energy first will keep you in our thoughts!

Thanks TREY. The masks are the Eduard ones, so pretty easy to do.  The underside has been painted in the pic, but it is hard to tell from the grey plastic.

Hunker down Len looks like a direct hit,at least it lost some energy first will keep you in our thoughts!

Bish the 17 is looking grea,t nice mask work ca'nt wait to see some paint go down!

Thanks Trey and Bish for the kind words and for wishing us well with the hurricane. The eye is supposed to be around 25-50 miles off the coast from us around 7 am Sunday morning. I live on a lagoon system and my area is still under a voluntary evac. I`m keeping a close eye on this storm and have a friend that`s inland from us who has invited us to stay with them. We`re all packed up and ready to run!

The Betty looks great. Fingures crossed for you guys.

Got an update on the B-17. This weeks i got the masking done, engines finished and added. Then finally got some paint on the underside. Doesn't look much different from my last update, but i am now seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Should have the OD started on Mon, that will take a couple of days. But here she is at the moment.

Thanks for looking, and comments welcome.

And to all you guys affected by Irene, stay safe.

Len hope the best for you dealing with Irene ,the Betty is looking great

It`s been a while but I`m still plugging away at the Betty. Here`s a few pics...

Trying to finish her up but getting a little side tracked with being evacuated from Irene...heading right at us. Batten down the hatches!

Great looking Lanc!

Thanks alot guys. Those yellow tanks are oxygen tanks. I haven't added all that the aircrfat would carry, stikpusher was really helpful with some pics and a layout of the complete oxygen system. But i just added the ones that might be seen once closed up.

Really nice Lanc. I have the hase kit and plan on doing a Dio of it being loaded with a similar bomb load to what you have.

Gentlemen,

I thought to resurect this tread from the bottom of the second page. Here are some wip pix...

Bish, great work. Just wandering, what are those yellow canisters?

Cheers...

Great looking detail Bish,I'm with Pilot hard to believe that its 1/72!

WOW Bish!  Really great work!  Hard to believe this is 1/72! Love it!

Been distracted on other projects, so I haven't really done much to my A-20.  I have masked off the canopy and installed it.  All the seams are taken care of, and yes the turret barrels are still attached.

Time for another update. This has been dragging on for 2 months now due to one thing and another. But finally getting close to being able to put some paint on.

The inside is almost all Eduard PE. Most of it i fitted into nthe right side of the fuselage before putting that together.

Most of it went into the front office. The yellow Oxygen tanks are quickboost resin items.

The radio room was non existant in the kit, this is all PE

I also wanted to build the mount for the ball turret. This was scratched from Styrene rob.

Then finally able to put this together.

Luckly the inside is still visiable.

Now got 3 weeks off so won't be getting back to this for a while. But hopeing to get finished by the end of the month.

Thanks for looking.

The Eduard mask sets are very good, especially for multi panel canopies as you get on most bombers.

Castel - nice paint job so far! Like Bish, I use Tamiya tape for masking. Once I get the line I want I cover the rest of the area behind the line with blue painter's tape from 3M.

I use either eduard's mask set, if I can find 'em for the kit, or I use the Tamiya tape for masking canopies.

Thanks TREY. Got started on the PE bomb bay last week, should have some more pics next weekend.

Castel, looking good, nice job on the masking. I use Tamiya tape for all my kits. Tried standard marsking tape, the DIY stuff, but found it to tacky for models.

Gentlemen,

Some wip pix on my humble Lanc...

First attempt at painting with masking tape. I used just a simple adhesive tape from a stationary store. Worked wel,l but I am curious what you guys are using.

On this one, the pilot's instruments is obviously a decal, radio operator's instruments I tryed drybrushing. It will not be visible anyway.

Len the Betty is looking sharp nice cammo job!

Bish great work on the office

jbrady looks like you worked out the fit issues,having some of the same on my current build. What filler do you use?

Great progress on the B-25s, J.  I heard the Italeri kit is a repop of the AM kit, if that's the case, sorry to hear about the fit issues.  I've built two of the AM B-25Bs (did both as two different Doolittle Raiders), and the only issues I had, was on one of them, the ball turrett plug didn't fit all that well.

Plenty of choice with that kit then, but sounds like alot of effort needed.

Bish: You can build a B,C, or D model with the Italeri kit. The D model requires some extra work because some of the bits are missing. You have to scratch build the astro dome behind the cockpit, the windows on the sides just behind the cockpit are only correct for the B and early C models. On my kit one of the exhaust fairings is missing... you need 14 I only have 13. From what I read about the two kits, I thought the Revel would be the most difficult but so far it is hands down the Italeri. Very poor fit around the cowlings and the cowling to nacelle attachment.

Welcome back j. You know i wouldn't have noticed that was 2 kits if you hadn't said, shows how observant i am. Could see the differences after i read that. What Model is the Italeri kit.

They are looking good, sounds like your putting alot of work in.

Looks like everyone is making nice progress. Go away for a couple of weeks and get left behind. The baseball trips are done until September so maybe I can get some work done. Nice trip this time Pittsburgh, Philly, and Houston. Red Sox nation does travel well

The top three pictures are the Revell B 25 J The bottom 3 are the Italeri. Both kits have fit issues around the cowls. The Italeri kit is terrible. Before I left I seriously considered giving up on ever getting a good fit... but I think I've got a handle on it now. On the Revel the biggest issue is the thickness of the cowl flaps. I sanded them from both the inside and outside and rescribed the individual flaps and managed to get a good fit with no step between the flaps and the nacelle. Plan on finishing the putty and sanding tonight and tomorrow then it's time for primer.

That was quick. Actually you can see it in 3 of the 4 pics. I hadn't thought of useing an oil wash on parts like this. I have only used it to dirty up armour. Normally i have just dry brushed and i think i added a pro modeller wash on my B-24 engines. But that burnt umber gives a nice finish.

Thats why i love this site, theres always something new that catchs the eye. Betwenn you and a couple of the guys on the 8th AAF GB, i have picked up 2 ideas just in time to try out on the 17.

Thanks for doing that

Bish-

I popped the port engine out of the cowl. My lighting is not the best...I build in my "Florida" room (sun room) and it gets bright in here..too bright sometimes..lol.

Hopefully, in one of the 4 pics, you can see I used a very light wash of burnt umber. The crank case was painted bright aluminum.

Take Care,

Len

No worries, if you can get pics, that would be greta. Be nice tgo see how you finished them.

Bish-

I think I forgot to take pics of the finished engines! They aren`t glued on yet...the fit is si tight I just pushed `em on for painting...was going to pop them off the wings to paint the anti-glare panels. I`ll try to take some pics...can`t remember if I glued the engine to the cowl...DOH!

Len, that Bettey is looking nice. I take it you have already fitted the engines, if you have a pic of them after painting would be nice to see that, as you did a great job on the wiring.

B-17, i meant to say before, i thought the pic from the GB badge was a photoshop. I thought that was a P-47 engine edited on the front of a 17.